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Not Another Male Orgasm: Using the Shapes of Meander, Spiral, Explode in CNF

115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Jane Alison’s craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode discusses narrative shapes beyond the traditional climactic arc—but her examples are drawn from fiction. In this session, each panelist will show, through both example and speculation, how Alison’s shapes (waves, cells, spirals, explosions) can function in creative nonfiction. The session will include a series of generative writing prompts, and end with a discussion of the ways that shape, pattern, and design can provoke and enrich CNF content.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Not_Another_Male_Orgasm_AWP_Event_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Randon Billings Noble

Ellie Bozmarova is a Bulgarian American writer. Her nonfiction won the 2021 Nomadic Press and 2020 Women’s National Book Association-SF awards. She was a 2020 US Fulbright Grant semi-finalist in creative writing. Ellie's essays have appeared in Business Insider, the Common, phoebe, and more.

Kristina R. Gaddy is the author of Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis and Well of Souls: Music, Dance, Spirituality, and the Early Banjo.

Laura Laing is a queer journalist, essayist, and author. A graduate of Goucher's MFA in creative nonfiction, she is the vice president of ASJA. Her essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, and she is working on a memoir, weaving narrative with explorations of abstract mathematics.

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